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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Apple vs. Microsoft Proceedings (Long Text)
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Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
References: <31415@usc>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 91 16:48:30 GMT

This is totally ludicrous. Just to begin with, relying on a photocopy to
determine look and feel of a user interface is insane. I've used all the
user interfaces in question, and the Macintosh is clearly a crippled
subset of the Xerox Star: the only differences between them being wholly
due to the restricted memory and single-tasking operating system. Windows
is a substantially different interface, with a completely different feel.

Nothing short of installing a Star, Mac, and PC in the courtroom is adequate
to determine these sorts of questions. Anyone claiming that anything less
is sufficient is naive or crooked... the author or the subject of a con job.
-- 
Peter da Silva.  `-_-'  peter@ferranti.com
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